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Nadadur Ammal’s Prapanna Parijata (English)

This is Nadadur Ammal’s Prapanna Parijata in English. Nadadur Ammal, aka Vatsya Varadacharya, was a 12th century Sri Vaishnava Acharya. He was the grandson of Ramanujacharya’s nephew Nadadur Alwan, and he was one of the greatest experts on Ramanujacharya’s Sri Bhashya of all time. He had many famous disciples, including Kidambi Apullar, uncle and guru of Vedanta Desikan, and Vadakku Thiruveedhi Pillai, father and guru of Pillai Lokacharya. It is due to philosophical differences between Vedanta Desikan and Pillai Lokacharya that the Sri Vaishnava sect split up into Thenkalais and Vadakalais centuries later. In any case, the Prapanna Parijata is a work by Nadadur Ammal on the subject of Sharanagati. Sharanagati, aka Prapatti, is a means to Moksha emohasized by Sri Vaishnavas, which involves complete surrender to the lotus feet of Vishnu. In this work, Nadadur Ammal discusses, among other things, the nature of Sharanagati, scriptural support for it, the qualifications to do it, the method of doing it, and how to spend your remaining time on Earth after you’ve done it. By the way, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, check out the site hinduism.stackexchange.com.

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